This post serves merely to provide a link to Robert Benjamin’s new article on mediate.com, commenting on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s negotiation that led to the recent passage of the New York Marriage Equality Act. The article is valuable (and of course isn’t about “mediation in Asia”) because of Bob’s analysis of Gov. Cuomo’s partisan negotiation [...]
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Governor Cuomo’s negotiation
Posted in Dialogue, Negotiation, Rights on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Asian/ASEAN way: talking about rights?
Posted in Culture, Dialogue, Rights on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The creation of the ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights marks a substantial step in the history of ASEAN, and an important move towards the recognition and enforcement of human rights. In this note, I’m less concerned with the substantive issues of human rights, but rather with – as the blog title suggests – the [...]
It might not be Asia, but it is about settlement
Posted in Negotiation, Rights, Settlement on June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After over a decade of pre-litigation action, and with the civil case about to come to court, Royal Dutch Shell has settled: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSN0847421220090608 In light of Geoff Sharp’s posting of Michael Moffitt’s new article on settlement (http://mediatorblahblah.blogspot.com/; and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1412282), this is a challenging case for thinking about the role of settlement. All the more so [...]
